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About your UCLA Logon ID

Your UCLA Logon ID (for merly known as the BOL Logon ID) is what you use to authenticate to electronic services across campus. It may also form the first part of your UCLA email address. Once created, your UCLA Logon ID is permanently assigned to your 9-digit UCLA ID (UID) number. Accounts created without a UID, e.g., for collaboration or guests, can be used to authenticate many UCLA applications, but are not generally eligible to receive campus services (email, network access, etc.).

Email & Network Services

Bruin OnLine (BOL) provides the UCLA community with email, web hosting services, network connectivity (including wireless), UCLA-licensed software and support. To access BOL services and software, you must have a UCLA Logon ID.

Campus Wireless

The campus wireless network, UCLAWLAN, requires a UCLA logon ID for access and also allows access via Virtual Private Network (VPN) clients for secure/encrypted connections. Wireless access for some mobile phones and devices is supported. Device configurations and client software are available from Bruin OnLine.

Computer & Data Security

Responsibility for keeping your logon ID, hardware, software, and data safe lies with each and every member of the UCLA community. This Safe Computing website helps ensure understanding of and compliance to security policies and appropriate use of IT resource. It also offers a brief online security training program (20 minute).

Classroom Technology

All general assignment classrooms have internet connectivity. Contact Audio Visual Services for equipment, technical support or training for enhancing lecture content.

The Office of Instructional Development posts video and/or audio recordings of course lectures on the Bruincast website as a student review resource. Video streaming is subsidized Fall through Spring quarters, while audio podcasting is subsidized year round.

CLICC has three (3) electronic learning spaces and two (2) mobile laptop carts that can be reserved by faculty or TAs for instruction.

CCLE

The UCLA Common Collaboration and Learning Environment (CCLE) is an open source course management system which provides course sites for instruction and collaboration sites for research and other work group activities. For further information contact the CCLE Support Coordinator Deborah Kearney, at 310-794-2099, dkearney@oid.ucla.edu. Your local department/division/school may also provide support and assistance with course management.

CLICC

The College Library Instructional Computing Commons (CLICC) has a computer lab in Powell available to students with instruction-related software applications. CLICC staff can assist with and provide tutorials for some of the software.

Some software is available for use online via CLICC’s software shortcut.

There are also (3) three portable projectors available for daily checkout. CLICC provides laptops for 4-hour loan from various library locations on campus. Lending hours vary so please check the CLICC website for availability and terms. For laptop use during lectures or presentations please contact CLICC for reservations (310)825-8208.

Computer Labs

There are a variety of specialized and undergraduate computer labs available around campus. Some are open only to students but many provide services to staff and faculty as well. The list of labs provides information on services, hours and restrictions.

Disabilities & Computing Program (DCP)

The DCP offers a variety of services to students, faculty and staff with temporary or permanent disabilities. The DCP will assess your technology needs and create a custom strategy for the use of adaptive technologies that will maximize your productivity. Call 310-206-7133 for any disability and technology related question. (Note: “staff” includes teaching and research assistants.)

Library & Online Resources

Each academic department or program has a subject specialist librarian assigned to help with the collections and instructional needs of faculty. Reference help is available online, via email, and in person. Information literacy programs, copyright and intellectual property information are available on the library website.

My UCLA: Electronic Grading

Help Desk: 310-206-4525
All grades are submitted through Gradebook or Gradebook Express on MyUCLA. MyUCLA can also be used to send email to classes and to access class rosters, photo rosters and permission to enroll (PTE) numbers.

MyUCLA: Plagiarism Prevention

Help Desk: 310-206-4525
UCLA has a license to Turnitin.com. Faculty in the College and participating schools may activate the service for individual classes through MyUCLA. Students then access the service through MyUCLA and turn their papers in electronically. The text is submitted to Turnitin.com where it is compared with a vast database of other student papers, online articles, general Web pages, and other sources. Turnitin.com then produces a report for the instructor indicating whether the paper was plagiarized and if so, how much.

Students can learn more about ethical use through the Library's Information Literacy Program and Preventing Plagiarism section.

Social Networking

UCLA has "official" pages on many social media web sites and services. Visit them and sample the variety of audio, video, photo and text content available from the campus. Check them out at:

Software

UCLA-licensed software is available for download at no cost from Bruin OnLine. This includes anti-virus, VPN, email and web browser clients.

Software Central supports UCLA through campus-wide agreements which provide software to departments at substantially discounted pricing.

Computer labs across campus offer a variety of instructional software for use on lab computers.

The UCLA Computer Store [phone: 310-825-6952] offers a broad range of software for both Macs & PCs with educational discounts.

Research Computing & Visualization Portal

Academic Technology Services (ATS) provides cluster hosting services to campus researchers, in accordance with the IDRE Cluster Hosting Program. Part of the Hoffman2 Cluster is set aside as a free resource for computation by general campus users. The UC and UCLA Grid Portals provide web-browser access to computational clusters at UCLA and other UCs. ATS also offers High Performance Computing Classes.

The Visualization Portal supports research by providing high-performance computing for running and displaying large datasets. The ATS Modeling Lab is an interdisciplinary computing facility available to UCLA graduate students, staff, researchers, and faculty researching new technologies for digital scholarship.